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Nomophobia, or no mobile phone phobia, is "the fear of being out of mobile phone contact". It is considered as a modern age phobia resulting from the interactions between people and ICTs and is used to refer to feelings and anxiety and/or discomfort caused by being out of reach of a smartphone. Objectives 1. To assess the prevalence and associated factors of nomophobia among undergraduate students at Narayan Nursing College. 2. To determine association of prevalence and associated factors of nomophobia with selected demographic variables among undergraduate students at Narayan Nursing College. Methodology The present study was a cross-sectional descriptive analytic study, recruit the 230-study participant by the using of convenient sampling technique. The data analysis is based on the objectives and hypothesis. Result: Shows that out of the taken 230 samples, total 229(99.56%) are having nomophobia in which 55(23.913%) are having mild nomophobia, 128(55.652) are having moderate nomophobia, 46(20%) are having severe nomophobia i.e. most of the students are moderately nomophobic. The findings also reveal that there is association of prevalence and associated factors of nomophobia with selected socio demographic variables (Duration of using smartphone per day) with p value 0.000 and the Fisher exact value is 22.169 by using SPSS, the p value for this study is 0.05. Discussion and Conclusion: The findings also reveal that there is association of prevalence and associated factors of nomophobia with selected socio demographic variables (Duration of using smartphone per day) with p value 0.000 and the Fisher exact value is 22.169 by using SPSS, the p value for this study is 0.05.